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  1. Balancing Altruism And Selfishness: Evolutionary Theory And The Foundation Of Morality.Margaret Gruter & Roger Masters - 1996 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 4.
    Although the field of bioethics usually emphasizes ethical dilemmas arising from contemporary biomedical research, at another level the foundation of ethical judgments can be explored in the light of evolutionary biology. Two scientific approaches illuminate the relationships between human nature, social environments, and standards of ethical judgment: first, ethology and the observational study of nonhuman primates; second, evolutionary theory and new developments in the understanding of natural selection. Ethology shows that humans, like the species most closely related to us, are (...)
     
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    Building blocks of legal behaviour.Margaret Gruter & Monika Gruter Morhenn - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (1-2):38.
    Flack and de Waal's exploration of basic building blocks of moral systems among non-human primates indicates that human legal systems and legal behaviour are not purely the product of the environment. An examination of some of the ways in which capacities for reciprocity, retributive behaviours, moralistic aggression, dispute resolution, sympathy, and empathy play roles in contemporary law and legal behaviour shows that these capacities are both ubiquitous and facilitative of legal systems. No attempt is made to reduce all legal systems (...)
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